Sunday, March 02, 2008
Kulchur 2
The Vanity Fair Portraits exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery is worth visiting although whoever laid out the room needs a good slapping, laying things out so as you enter the flow of the story encourages everyone to bottleneck into a narrow purpose-made corridor on the left? The NPG always gives the impression of being a large building that has been split in to too many small rooms and the staff always struggle to fit what they have in to the space. Vanity Fair Portraits should have been a bigger exhibition in a bigger room, from my limited number of visits I'm not sure the Gallery has that space.
Labels: art, London, National Portrait Gallery, photography
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Another busy day. The snow didn't last long, it was already melting by the time I left the house at around 9:15 am, when I emerged from the tube station at Holloway Road around an hour later it had all gone. There's more snow due tonight, though now the Met Office think it's going to miss London.
Later on I popped into the National Portrait Gallery for a look at the half a dozen or so Pet Shop Boys pictures they have on display. I think it would be quite possible to make a proper full-size showcase of the Pets and the various portraits taken of them over the year, but for now I'll have to restrain myself to the 'catalogue' to such an exhibition.
Later on I popped into the National Portrait Gallery for a look at the half a dozen or so Pet Shop Boys pictures they have on display. I think it would be quite possible to make a proper full-size showcase of the Pets and the various portraits taken of them over the year, but for now I'll have to restrain myself to the 'catalogue' to such an exhibition.
Labels: art, music, National Portrait Gallery, Pet Shop Boys, photos
